[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by Nixx

Dude, can someoone just let me know how to uninstall Vista so that i can install XP to run my games?

THX.

Boot from XP disc, format, install.

[Bob Cerelli]

And you know you have all the XP drivers for all the hardware?

[chubby541]

Originally Posted by crjdriver

I have been running vista RTM for the last two months and have had 0 problems [except for one I caused myself] It is far and away superior to xp.

uh...two months of vista with no problems! I am a computer service tech, and I find that hard to believe. Maybe you are just playing solitaire with it. I have just heard that two major cell phone internet providers can't even get their stuff to work using vista. I agree with many others, it is way to early to try to get it work. Another sad story, a customer just bought a new Toshiba laptop, and since vista doesn't work a lot of the time, wanted to go to xp, but there are no drivers for xp.

[Bob Cerelli]

Guess a lot depends on what you want to do with it.

So far none of my customers that have Vista are very pleased. Two returned them for new desktops and laptops with XP (variety of problems). One kept Vista but only after a few weeks of trying to get everything to work the way it did with XP and they don't plan on replacing all their other old computers with Vista. Too much time for too little benefit. Others are struggling to make things work as they did before. Others have software that we know won't work so it isn't even an option. But then they are business users that need something to work right away. They are not technical home users with a lot of time to spend.

Fortunately for all, there is no compelling reason to use Vista at all at this point.

[RootbeaR]

Upgrades can not go back once installed.
At least not for Ultimate.
Read EULA
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx

[Bob Cerelli]

Originally Posted by Nixx

Dude, can someoone just let me know how to uninstall Vista so that i can install XP to run my games?

THX.

Hopefully the information starting with the first reply has been helpful:

Originally Posted by crjdriver

I would just boot with your xp cd and do a clean install. Now copy back whatever docs, mp3s, etc you want from your backup.

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

You'd have to either uninstall Vista, if you can, or format and reinstall.

Originally Posted by RootbeaR

Boot from XP disc, format, install.

[crjdriver]

Originally Posted by chubby541

uh...two months of vista with no problems! I am a computer service tech, and I find that hard to believe. Maybe you are just playing solitaire with it. I have just heard that two major cell phone internet providers can't even get their stuff to work using vista. I agree with many others, it is way to early to try to get it work. Another sad story, a customer just bought a new Toshiba laptop, and since vista doesn't work a lot of the time, wanted to go to xp, but there are no drivers for xp.

Actually going on four months now; no problems at all. IMO a much better os than xp [which I never liked] BTW I do video editing / dvd burning, gaming, and software evaluation. The "Problems" people have with vista are caused by many things; hardware not up to running vista, trying to use old hardware that does not have drivers, etc.

[Bob Cerelli]

So far the biggest problem I've seen is with software incompatibility.

[demortes]

Originally Posted by Nixx

Dude, can someoone just let me know how to uninstall Vista so that i can install XP to run my games?

THX.

Insert XP disk and reboot.

[Bob Cerelli]

That's about the forth or fifth time for that recommendation.

[DxPreS]

I wanted to access a forum before i removed Vista from my PC. I stumbled along here and read everything everyone had to offer on the topic. Thank you for the info and experience if that is where the info came.

On another note...

Originally Posted by crjdriver

Actually going on four months now; no problems at all. IMO a much better os than xp [which I never liked] BTW I do video editing / dvd burning, gaming, and software evaluation. The "Problems" people have with vista are caused by many things; hardware not up to running vista, trying to use old hardware that does not have drivers, etc.

I truly believe you have no idea what you do on your own PC, what programs were you able to find that are really is compatible (I had trouble even installing AIM 6.1, had to get 5.9 and upgrade but 6.1 was supposidly compatible). Heck Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash do even work how they are supposed to. are you using MS Paint to do your editing?!?!? ROFL Im not even going to get into gaming!

I am running Vista Home Premium 32bit, and i have had problems watching dvds with even a decent quality, cannot capture and record video at a good quality with the TV tuner card (even though Leadtek has provided Vista drivers) cannot record and edit video with any of the following programs without Vista DRM reducing quality substantially:
Ulead DVD Movie Factory
VideoStudio 9.0
Nero
Windows Movie Maker
Winfast PVR2
And when i want to record audio with video for some reason in vista it wont recognize that the tv card has and audio out directly plugged into the cdin (audio in) on the motherboard, however XP had no problems doing this?!

OK so set aside the video & Audio editing and now we get to the lack of performance its benchmarks with PCWizard2006 was just horrendous. Oh I'll let you know what I'm running:
Vista Home Premium 32bit
2.4 Core 2 Duo OC @ 2.71
Asus P5B Deluxe Motherboard
2gigs Corsair DDR2 800 PC6400
EVGA Nvidia 320mb 8800GTS PCIE Video Card
MACS Monsoon II Cooling system
Leadtek XP Expert Tv/Tuner card (PCI)
2x 250g Segate SATA 3.0 Hard Drives
Apevia 680w Iceberg PSU
2x Lite-on SATA CDR/DVDR Drives
NZXT LEXA Classic Series Case
Acer 22" "Vista ready" lol... LCD monitor

So tell me how can I believe that someone is having no problems at all when i designed this system to be fully compatible with vista researching and making sure each and every component would and should work fine with vista. Instead I'm getting disgusting low response times, lack of editing features, lack of compatibility, lack of performance, and lastly how can you stand behind "Vista which continuously spends CPU time monitoring itself, trying to figure out if you're doing something that it thinks you shouldn't. If it does, it limits functionality and in extreme cases restarts just the video subsystem." - DRM in Windows Vista That's funny. We are at the point now where the PC decides what we can and can't do. It's like the CPU is overriding the brain. Next Vista will tell you what you can think according to a DRM scheme. The user should manage the PC, the PC shouldn't manage the user.

No thank you Vista Ill go back to XP for good, heck i might even go to Linspire

[pgs78]

Just use XP setup CD and that will do the rest as you follow on screen prompts.You may need drivers from website of your PC or laptop maker.

[amberp]

Originally Posted by DxPreS

I wanted to access a forum before i removed Vista from my PC. I stumbled along here and read everything everyone had to offer on the topic. Thank you for the info and experience if that is where the info came.

Unfortunately, I stumbled along here AFTER I had tried removing Vista from my PC. Wasn't one of my smarter moments
But thanks to people having problems with Vista, I was finally able to get it uninstalled aside from one folder that simply refuses to part but I don't have any more time to muck with it after having spent 3 days fighting with Vista already.
I hate that I had to benefit off of everyone misfortune but it was definitely appreciated!

Originally Posted by DxPreS

On another note...


I truly believe you have no idea what you do on your own PC, what programs were you able to find that are really is compatible (I had trouble even installing AIM 6.1, had to get 5.9 and upgrade but 6.1 was supposidly compatible). Heck Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash do even work how they are supposed to. are you using MS Paint to do your editing?!?!? ROFL Im not even going to get into gaming!

I am running Vista Home Premium 32bit, and i have had problems watching dvds with even a decent quality, cannot capture and record video at a good quality with the TV tuner card (even though Leadtek has provided Vista drivers) cannot record and edit video with any of the following programs without Vista DRM reducing quality substantially:
Ulead DVD Movie Factory
VideoStudio 9.0
Nero
Windows Movie Maker
Winfast PVR2
And when i want to record audio with video for some reason in vista it wont recognize that the tv card has and audio out directly plugged into the cdin (audio in) on the motherboard, however XP had no problems doing this?!

OK so set aside the video & Audio editing and now we get to the lack of performance its benchmarks with PCWizard2006 was just horrendous. Oh I'll let you know what I'm running:
Vista Home Premium 32bit
2.4 Core 2 Duo OC @ 2.71
Asus P5B Deluxe Motherboard
2gigs Corsair DDR2 800 PC6400
EVGA Nvidia 320mb 8800GTS PCIE Video Card
MACS Monsoon II Cooling system
Leadtek XP Expert Tv/Tuner card (PCI)
2x 250g Segate SATA 3.0 Hard Drives
Apevia 680w Iceberg PSU
2x Lite-on SATA CDR/DVDR Drives
NZXT LEXA Classic Series Case
Acer 22" "Vista ready" lol... LCD monitor

So tell me how can I believe that someone is having no problems at all when i designed this system to be fully compatible with vista researching and making sure each and every component would and should work fine with vista. Instead I'm getting disgusting low response times, lack of editing features, lack of compatibility, lack of performance, and lastly how can you stand behind "Vista which continuously spends CPU time monitoring itself, trying to figure out if you're doing something that it thinks you shouldn't. If it does, it limits functionality and in extreme cases restarts just the video subsystem." - DRM in Windows Vista That's funny.

I agree completely.

My husband and I have identical systems aside from the video cards, they're both Nvidia, however, only mine is newer and was supposed to be compatible with Vista. He got his vcard almost 4 years or so ago and he can use dual monitors on Vista.
I spent 3 days trying all the different drivers and solutions that Google could find trying to get Vista to realize that I had 2 monitors, not 1!

I won't go into the rest of the problems, I could be here all day.

I ended up going back to XP where EVERYTHING works!
(as far as any Windows, aside from Vista, ever would]

Lot of time wasted fighting with an OS.
Vista is nothing but 2GB of OS and 2GB of eyecandy, anyway. And I'd rather spend my 2GB of ram on something useful than using it up or having to buy more just for the eyecandy.

Originally Posted by DxPreS

We are at the point now where the PC decides what we can and can't do. It's like the CPU is overriding the brain. Next Vista will tell you what you can think according to a DRM scheme. The user should manage the PC, the PC shouldn't manage the user.

No thank you Vista Ill go back to XP for good, heck i might even go to Linspire

lol, I was talking about this the other day when I listened to my husband behind me spending the day battling it out with Vista's UAC and even after!

MS keeps making these OS's more and more user-friendly and idiot proof, one reason, because more and more people are getting computers and aren't as technically savvy as many others are.
But what about the people that ARE seasoned users? There's many people that have been using computers since the beginning of time and MS chooses to ignore them by making these childproof OS's for beginners.
(Which they're screwing themselves anyway, because after so long of a beginner not being able to do anything or even know how to stop it from not letting them do anything, they're going to get fed up and go to an OS that works!)

They should make "Home" for beginners and "Pro" for professionals!

Big-wig, "suit and tie" company, top-floor with a view guy showing something to his clients and goes to search for something and has some cute little furry puppy dog bouncing out of nowhere licking the screen and begging you to pet it in return for HELP....
funny.

MS, just make one system for beginners and one for advanced users!
Advanced users don't need puppy dogs help or wizards to setup a connection to the internet!
And we certainly don't need to be told what we can and can't do and what we can't and can't delete and be asked from everything we do if we're SURE we want to do what we TOLD it we wanted to do!!!

I'm going to take a Valium.... talk to y'all later.

amb.

[biggsDarwin]

Let me first apologize for titling this "too funny", for it had nothing to do with thinking that this person's plight was/is funny. Rather, I was thinking about "upgrading" my wife's HP laptop to Vista. I have been waiting for a Service Pack release before installing and after reading these posts, methinks that I am going to wait until I hear word that MS has done the right thing....

So though I had nothing intelligent to add to this post, I just wanted to say thanks for reminding me that the first generation of nearly anything is not something that I want to mess with... I'll wait til the bugs have been worked.

And yes, that includes MAC OS!

[spiked232]

If you want to uninstall windows vista, just boot to your command prompt, go to C: drive..type in format C: and let it format...now put in your Windows XP disc..run disc as usual, and clean install. Make sure you have all the drivers for your motherboard and networks on disk before you format anything. This will give you a complete clean install and you'll have XP.

Now you said you made a copy or backup of your XP hard drive..these guys want to know if this was a image (ie. using Norton Ghost) or was this just a backup on the computer or the internet?

Hope this helps ya out..